“It was like standing at the mouth of hell,” said Anne Adkins, MPR’s office manager. “We didn’t have a news team, so we became the news team.”

According to the story, half of the station's $250,000 budget comes from CPB. A membership drive that was "all but derailed by the wildfire," the story says, actually turned out to be the station’s most successful ever, raising more than $85,000.